Out of Pod Experience

Glasses you might need when you get old, but I think it's a scam.


Eyes are focused by muscles. If you deny that with aid devices, muscles atrophy. Imagine what would happen to your legs if you decided to use a wheelchair.

But when you "start them young", and therefore make them dependent on glasses, you have people who will spend an entire life needing - and paying a lot of money for - glasses and contacts.

There are a lot of mass-produced consumer goods out there that are cheap because of it. For example, a power supply for an electronics workbench is pricey, but you can mod a computer power supply to do the job. But computer power supplies are much cheaper. There are many more computers with power supplies than workbench power supplies.

So why are lenses and frames still so pricey?


Because you NEED them.

So when they stick a kid with glasses, they got a new sucker hooked for life.


When I was 16 I had 20/30 vision and they tried to stick me with glasses. I knew then, being a powerlifter, how muscles worked and that the eyes are focused by them. Glasses would make things worse. So looked at my habits and noted that having my nose in books and magazines a lot and not getting out much would make my far vision diminish. So I changed that.

Some years later the military tried to stick me with glasses for 20/30. No deal and I got the drill sergeant onboard with that ruse and I didn't have to wear them and never wore glasses. I did not though that with long schedules and night school while in the armed forces my nighttime vision was blurry and used the glasses occasionally.

So I countered that by getting out more in the daytime and finding nice stuff outdoors to actually look at. By the late 90s I never wore glasses.

Starting around that time I started to work in offices, with occasional jobs outdoors, but I know the importance of an "eye break". I spend a lot of time at computers. I do two things:

1. Use the smallest resolution and text possible.
2. have stuff on the farthest walls to look at - put your clock, whiteboard, and calendar there.

My vision is 20/20 now, and has been since around 1999.

So if you are being a basement dwelling neckbeard wtih your nose up to that screen for the pron, and then your vision starts to go south, think first before you go to a permanent crutch for your vision that will make you dependent on said crutch for the rest of your life.

And part of the great scam is that years later guess what you will need? That's right, a new prescription.

I don't expect anybody to agree with this. I think even if I managed to get suckered in life, spent a lifetime needing glasses and paying bucks for them, and now being dependent on them, if someone told me what I just posted I would have to call that person a nutjob in order to avoid the rage I would feel about having my life changed and being tricked into blindness like that for an industry that gets rich off of it.

So just take my post as a personal experience and tell yourself that you didn't get hoodwinked and made half-blind and dependent by the medical industrial complex. Nothing so see here, all is calm, move along.

Just remember that there is no other species on this planet that ever needed glasses and it's' not normal to "need" them.

I wear contacts and have been considering Lasik but after I watched a video of the procedure I'm too much of a pussy.

I wear contacts and have been considering Lasik but after I watched a video of the procedure I'm too much of a pussy.

PRK custom is way better than lasik in terms of results.... no glare at night and more precise.

The downside is that instead of just cutting a flap in the lens they dissolve it with acid which results in a month long healing time with the light sensitivity of a vampire (not the sparkly ones, you'd have an aneurysm)

Okay maybe I wasn't clear how much of a pussy I am but it pretty much precludes anything involving cutting into, firing lasers at, or dripping acid onto my eyeball.